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ISBN: 9781742758985
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2013
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA
Pages: 256
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"A mother's battle against her seven-year-old daughter's obesity. When a doctor pronounced Dara-Lynn Weiss s daughter, Bea, obese at the age of seven, the mother of two knew she had to take action. But how can a woman with her own food and body issues not to mention poor eating habits successfully parent a little girl around the issue of obesity? In this much-anticipated, controversial memoir in the vein of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and French Children Don't Throw Food, Dara-Lynn Weiss chronicles the struggle and journey to get Bea healthy. In describing their process complete with frustrations, self-recriminations, dark humour, and some surprising strategies Weiss reveals the hypocrisy inherent in the debates over many cultural hot-button issues- from processed snacks, organic foods, and school lunches to dieting, eating disorders, parenting methods, discipline, and kids self-esteem. Compounding the challenge were eating environments from school to restaurants to birthday parties that set Bea up to fail, and unwelcome judgements from fellow parents. Childhood obesity, Weiss discovered, is a crucible not just for the child b
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ISBN: 9781742758985
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2013
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA
Pages: 256
Description:
"A mother's battle against her seven-year-old daughter's obesity. When a doctor pronounced Dara-Lynn Weiss s daughter, Bea, obese at the age of seven, the mother of two knew she had to take action. But how can a woman with her own food and body issues not to mention poor eating habits successfully parent a little girl around the issue of obesity? In this much-anticipated, controversial memoir in the vein of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and French Children Don't Throw Food, Dara-Lynn Weiss chronicles the struggle and journey to get Bea healthy. In describing their process complete with frustrations, self-recriminations, dark humour, and some surprising strategies Weiss reveals the hypocrisy inherent in the debates over many cultural hot-button issues- from processed snacks, organic foods, and school lunches to dieting, eating disorders, parenting methods, discipline, and kids self-esteem. Compounding the challenge were eating environments from school to restaurants to birthday parties that set Bea up to fail, and unwelcome judgements from fellow parents. Childhood obesity, Weiss discovered, is a crucible not just for the child b
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